There is only one way to recover from the evil humanity does to itself: overcome it. It’s like my mother said at dinner the other night: we can only be responsible for what we ourselves do. Bad things happen in this world, and we are judged on how we respond. Do we take part in evil, or do we fight against it with all we have?
Diana Peterfreund in Chapter 16 of her book Across a Star-Swept Sea spoken by her character Persis Blake














